Events and Index

EVENTS 1890-1919

1890s - development of motion pictures
1890 - discovery of diphtheria vaccine
1891 - invention of the zip fastener
1891 - 1891 national census
1895 - discovery of x-rays
1895 - wireless telegraphy invented
1896 - discovery of radioactivity
1897 - Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
1899 - start of Scott's Antarctic Expedition
1899 - invention of the first tape recorder
1899 - introduction of aspirin
1899 - start of the Boer War
1901 - first Trans-Atlantic Radio Signal
1901 - death of Queen Victoria
1902 - Boer War ends
1903 - first flight by Wright Brothers
1905 - Russo-Japanese War Begins
1906 - "Bloody Sunday" - Russian Revolution of 1905
1906 - Einstein Proposes his Theory of Relativity
1906 - Freud Publishes his Theory of Sexuality
1907 - Finland first european country to give women the right to vote
1907 - first electric washing machine
1908 - Henry Ford introduces the Model-T
1909 - Japan's Prince Ito is assassinated
1910 - invention of plastic
1910 - Robert Peary becomes the first to reach the North Pole
1910 - appearance of Halley's Comet
1911 - the Chinese Revolution
1911 - Rutherford discovers the structure of the atom
1911 - Greenwich Mean Time adopted
1911 - Amundsen reaches the South Pole
1912 - invention of the parachute
1912 - discovery of Piltdown Man (fraud)
1912 - SOS accepted as universal distress signal
1912 - sinking of the Titanic
1914 - Archduke Ferdinand assassinated
1914 - World War I begins
1915 - Armenian genocide
1915 - sinking of the Lusitania
1916 - Battle of the Somme / Battle of Verdun
1916 - Easter Rising in Ireland
1917 - Mata Hari executed as a spy
1917 - Russian Revolution
1917 - U.S. enters World War I
1918 - death of Czar Nicholas II and family
1919 - Treaty of Versailles
1919 - Prohibition begins in the U.S.